MALEBY BUNTING. 399 



This bird is abundant throughout Siberia, but is 

 not met with in Russia : it is taken among the reeds 

 on the Don. 



MAELBY BUNTING. 

 (Emberiza maelbiensis.) 



E. capite collogue plumbeo-cinereis, gula albida, abdomine Jerru- 



ginea. 

 Bunting with the head and neck lead-coloured ash, throat 



whitish, and belly ferruginous. 

 Emberiza maelbiensis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 872. — Lath. Ind. 



Orn. 1. 401. 8. 

 Maelby Bunting. Pen. Arct. Zool. Sup. 64. — Lath. Syn. Sup. 



160. 



This bird is found in Sweden ; and is the size 

 of E. citrinella : beak pale rufous : forehead, crown, 

 lower part of the neck before, and upper part of 

 the breast, blueish ash-colour : spot between the 

 beak and eye, eyelids, chin, upper parts of the 

 throat, sides of the neck, and vent, dusky white : 

 lower part of the breast, belly, and thighs, ferru- 

 ginous ; back the same, marked with acute black 

 spots : upper wing-coverts black, with ferruginous 

 edges; under ones pale yellow : quills dusky, with 

 ferruginous edges : tail-feathers black ; the four 

 outer ones half way from the tip white, the outer 

 margins black : legs pale rufous. 



